CUSP has two related aspects: one concerned with projects and one with research. CUSP's projects arm works with public and private sector institutions and businesses on major arts-based projects and initiates its own projects and interventions. Many of these projects have been developed in conjunction with the Faculty of Art, Media and Design, UWE, as part of its commitment to a Student Enterprise Scheme and are intended to serve as educational opportunities for graduate students, for example the series of on-going projects with Lloyds TSB. CUSP also invites artists and researchers to show innovative and challenging projects on the CUSP web site in order to publicise good practice in its broad field of interest.
CUSP's research arm will be increasingly involved in both the development of general public arts policy and detailed fieldwork evaluations of some of the many public arts and art/architectural projects in the South West region. We hope in future to extend this to projects further afield.
Examples
may include:
A longitudinal
study of the Crest Nicholson scheme of public artworks as an example of
corporate sponsorship;
An analysis of the Forest
of Dean Sculpture Trail as a paradigm of a public arts scheme in forested
areas;
A critique of the Bristol
City public arts policy, undertaken in collaboration with the BCC public
arts officers;
Iain Biggs
University of the West of England
'Invicta pax' Monuments, Memorials and peace:an analysis of the Canadian Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa.
Professor Paul Gough
Public Arts Policy Research Reports
Bristol Cultural Development Partnership
BCDP Research Report:
Bristol Legible City (BLC) : 2001/2002 Evaluation Report
Andrew Kelly Melanie Kelly May 2002
BCDP Research Report:
The Economic, Social and Cultural Impact of Arnolfini
Andrew Kelly November 2002
BCDP Research Report:
Attitude of Queen Square companies to the renewal of the square and to Bristol Legible City
Andrew Kelly Melanie Kelly December 2002